i've only been vaping for maybe a week now, and just yesterday i noticed my e-cig started tasting really bad and the throat hit was really harsh. i bought some replacement cartridges and it doesn't seem to help so far. what could be causing this? is it time for my e-cig to be cleaned already? i'm using the smoke 51 duo.
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I've found (in the past anyways) that smoke51 cartomizers are so inconsistant with their flavors that it became unreliable to count on any satisfying from one shipment to the next.
If you've changed out the cartomizer for a new one and still getting a bad taste it has to be the batch, and there is no cleaning that you can do to change that.
The only other thing I could see it being is that your gaining some tastebuds back after years of analogs and you just don't like it. That, or you are hitting it too often and not letting the stuffing wick back and prime the heating filament, or your receiving unful batches of cartomizers and getting that horrid burnt stuffing/filament taste.
Other than that I don't have any recommendation or insite to offer with that brand, sorry.
VapeOn,
Greg
If you've changed out the cartomizer for a new one and still getting a bad taste it has to be the batch, and there is no cleaning that you can do to change that.
The only other thing I could see it being is that your gaining some tastebuds back after years of analogs and you just don't like it. That, or you are hitting it too often and not letting the stuffing wick back and prime the heating filament, or your receiving unful batches of cartomizers and getting that horrid burnt stuffing/filament taste.
Other than that I don't have any recommendation or insite to offer with that brand, sorry.
VapeOn,
Greg
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okay, so you noticed the flavor inconsistencies too? i'm glad i'm not going crazy here. i bought the "tobacco" flavor (the only flavor the cigar shop had) and the first time it tasted like candy. i bought another cartridge and it tasted unbearably harsh and bitter, but it's starting to taste better now. also for some reason i have to pull extra hard to get a throat hit with these new cartridges.
regardless of its shortcomings, this e-cig is still okay by me. i haven't smoked in 3 days which is the longest i've been able to go since i started smoking analogs.
I ended up getting the coffee flavor and enjoyed it more than the (not so much tasting) tobacco, or the chocolate. But again, those darn inconsistant flavor qualities finally put me off, so I started refilling with other vendor juices, and then DIY'ing my own.
In the end it became too much hassle to refill carto's for me, and the auto batteries just weren't for me as well as I progressed and learned more.
Aside from there high price, inconsistancy (cartos & batteries), I am glad for purchasing the smoke51 if not only for the reason of the introduction to e-cigs.
Its evolved me onto better (and less expensive) devices, and then further on to big battery mods and higher voltage vaping. But most importantly it opened the home chemist side of me (and I use that term VERY lightly), to DIY my own flavors, contents, and nic strengths.
So, in the end I'm glad to have made that initial purchase, and I always know that should I have any problems with my current "toys", lol, that the smoke51 is always around as a backup.
It had also made a decent "lend out" device for friends who are unsure of whether they might be interested in vaping to try before putting out the cash on their own. I tend to progress them through the 51duo, to the 401, to the 510 to show them the differences and each ones required involvement and performance.
But my "good deed" attitude ends when they ask to borrow my mods, lol..... Guess that makes me a "limited" nice guy, lol.
VapeOn,
Greg
In the end it became too much hassle to refill carto's for me, and the auto batteries just weren't for me as well as I progressed and learned more.
Aside from there high price, inconsistancy (cartos & batteries), I am glad for purchasing the smoke51 if not only for the reason of the introduction to e-cigs.
Its evolved me onto better (and less expensive) devices, and then further on to big battery mods and higher voltage vaping. But most importantly it opened the home chemist side of me (and I use that term VERY lightly), to DIY my own flavors, contents, and nic strengths.
So, in the end I'm glad to have made that initial purchase, and I always know that should I have any problems with my current "toys", lol, that the smoke51 is always around as a backup.
It had also made a decent "lend out" device for friends who are unsure of whether they might be interested in vaping to try before putting out the cash on their own. I tend to progress them through the 51duo, to the 401, to the 510 to show them the differences and each ones required involvement and performance.
But my "good deed" attitude ends when they ask to borrow my mods, lol..... Guess that makes me a "limited" nice guy, lol.
VapeOn,
Greg
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